Etymology

plover

plov·er
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Today it means: Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae. Full definition →

Middle English plover ← Anglo-Norman plover ← Medieval Latin plovarius
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompluvia“rain”
  2. Medieval Latin · derived fromplovarius
  3. Anglo-Norman · derived fromplover
  4. Middle English · inherited fromplover
  5. English todayplover

Inherited from Middle English plover, from Anglo-Norman plover, plovier, from Medieval Latin plovarius, pluviārius, of disputed origin; perhaps from Latin pluvia (“rain”).

Words from the same roots

Latinpluvia all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.